@Background Pony #AAAA  
In honor of you being BP AAAA, here’s some AAAA’s!

@Background Pony #E1FC
 
well, your ISP is already selling a list of what websites you visited and when. and any website with a facebook button gets you to report your visit there to facebook every time. making an account on derpibooru isn’t any worse than that stuff, so no reason not to do it.
 
but then, most of us don’t have the luxury of not being a people person, and to survive, we need other people to know about us. so you’re a kind of special case, if you can get paid without making a name for yourself.

Mildly annoying: frequent political/money begging posts on a general blog.  
Outright irritating: frequent political/money begging posts on a dedicated art blog.  
Please seek help immediately: frequent political/money begging posts on an in-character ask blog.

I don’t mind the texts; I’m more annoyed when artists don’t tag their art so one can skip most of the text. 🙂

@AaronMk  

 
I think we can all agree that the given definition for a social media site is grossly vague and overreaching in respect to the fact that it means that any site in which users can post content is technically definable as a social media site by that definition. If you don’t agree with that statment then we’ll just have to agree to disagree, because personally I refuse to define 90% of the sites on the internet as social media.
 
Personally I would say that derpibooru is primarily an image hosting site and secondarily an online forum. By my definitions the closest site I use to social media would be FiMfiction.net, because of the blog feature, but even then the primary purpose of the site is clearly for content hosting first and foremost. Now, that said, whether or not Tumblr is social media by these definitions is kind of hard to say because it’s also primarily used content sharing. However personally I define it as social media as due to how the site is designed and constructed it perfectly lends itself to that.
 
If I had to give a general criteria as to what I would define as a social media site I would say that it would be like this  
A) The site must allow individual users to be able to generate unique user profiles  
B) The site must allow individual users to post and upload content though their user profile but only though an established profile. (Sites that allow anonymous posting still count provided that there is a requirement to log in to post)  
C) The site must allow individual users to follow other individual user’s profiles directly  
D) The site has mechanisms built into the site that allow individual users to share content that has been uploaded to the site to their following
 
These are rather rough, but as you can see derpibooru only fully fulfills A) and by these definitions doesn’t qualify as a social media site as far as I’m concerned. Meanwhile it covers pretty much every modern site that is commonly defined as social media that I am aware of.

@Background Pony #E1FC  

 
You’re still browsing user-generated content, and in this moment commenting on it even. But hell, even anonymous browsing of content from Facebook and Twitter is possible, for most of those sites you don’t need to sign in or sign up to look at some people’s pages. Same with DB, albeit on a much larger scale.
 
The Anonymouse-to-Signed interaction does make a different sort of networking from Facebook or Twitter.

@edvd  
Right? Don’t you hate it when an artist you follow has different views from you? I certainly do.

@Background Pony #E1FC  
I think if you’re posting you’re still participating in the process of what makes social media social media.
 
I’ve avoided most of the popular social media sites as well. If not for the ask blogs that only popped up on Tumblr I would have avoided that one too.
 
I haven’t checked up on those blogs in years come to think of it.

@AaronMk  
What if you post anonymously, in a deliberate and planned attempt at avoiding social entanglements?
 
I have been using the Internet a while. I’ve never had a blog. I don’t use Facebook, Myspace, Google Plus, LinkedIn, or any of the rest. I have no interest in any of it. I’m not a people person. There are online forums I read because I have an interest in the subject matter. This is one of them. And if they don’t allow anonymous posting, I don’t post there.
 
Knowing my personal information is not being collected and turned over to Big Business and the government gives me warm fuzzies, I guess.

Man I’m glad I don’t follow anything on the Tumblr.

@Background Pony #63C8  
Years ago, before I had a Tumblr account, I used to bookmark every artist and pony ask blog I wanted to follow. I’d then check all of these bookmarks every day. The folder ended up having ~150 bookmarks in it and it took me over an hour to check them.  
Following blogs and then just scrolling down the dashboard is way easier and faster, even if you end up with a few text posts inbetween.

A simple compromise is to just never follow or subscribe to anything. If you see something that you know you’ll want to get back to later, just bookmark or memorize it.

@AaronMk  
Jokes on you, he doesn’t own a dictionary.

@I Was Never Here  

 
Well arguably by posting on Derpibooru you are using what can be technically considered a Social Media platform. So, let’s take a look at the dictionary definition:
 

 
Is Derpibooru an online application, or a website: yes.  
Does it facilitate the sharing of, and posting of user generated content: yes.  
Do people participate in that: yes.  
Are networks formed: Not to the extent of Facebook and Twitter with friends and shit which give priority to their posts over - arguably - all other content, but there are user artist tags to follow and by interacting with people you are likely building social networks at some level.
 
Conclusion: Derpibooru is a social networking platform in at least the broad sense.

@Thrond  
My trick is that I don’t use social media, problem solved.

It’s almost like social media accounts are used for a variety of purposes.

Every twitter artist evr

Yes to this. Make a separate blog for your Drumpf rambles you dadgum idiots.

This is so true.

lol I can relate to this. Some artists practically use their tumblr page like a chat room. following them turns your dashboard into a trash can full of spam.

lol, I don’t get why creators are surprised when people who like their art have differing opinions on things.

Thanks! I hate it!

Some think it’s a trick. Naturally the trick backfired if there was such a conspiracy.